On Sun, Mar 4, 2012 at 12:45 PM, Andy Colson <andy@squeakycode.net> wrote:
> On 03/04/2012 03:58 AM, Rory Campbell-Lange wrote:
>>
>> I'd be grateful for advice on specifying the new server
>>
>> providing about 230GB of usable storage, 150GB of which is on an LV
>> providing reconfigurable space for the databases which are served off an
>> XFS formatted volume.
>>
>
> Do you mean LVM? I've heard that LVM limits IO, so if you want full speed
> you might wanna drop LVM. (And XFS supports increasing fs size, and when
> are you ever really gonna want to decrease fs size?).
It certainly did in the past, I don't know if anyone's done any
conclusive testing on in recently, but circa 2005 to 2008 we were
running RHEL 4 and LVM limited the machine by quite a bit, with max
sequential throughput dropping off by 50% or more on bigger ios
subsystems. I.e. a 600MB/s system would be lucky to hit 300MB/s with
a LV on top.
